Led for criminal damage and resisting arrest...
the police.
locked the door behind them.
during the course and execution of his duty..."
Castle Bromwich in Birmingham).
"The police arrived and they marshalled the waggons into a convoy & escorted them out of the plant. At this point, three pickets were arrestThe police marshalled another 10 to 15 lorries into a convoy & forced the pickets to make a gang-way for them to pass through. During the course of this, several pickets were pushed to the ground and kicked by One picket was dragged by his ears through the police cordon into the gatehouse where 10 to 12 SPG were located. Apparantly, the manager The picket was then coshed and beaten by the police until he was unconscious. He was then dragged from the gatehouse, literally dumped in a police van and taken to Good Hope Hospital in Sutton Coldfield... After examination, he was discharged into police custody by the doctor. Then he was whisked out of the back entrance to Erdington Police Station where he was charged with assaulting a police officer (Report by an ISTC official at the picket lines at Pressed Fisher Steel, only a few years earlier - the steelworkers looked 'easy meat'.
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It is pure hypocrisy for Joseph -and other Tory ministers - to pretend that they were in no way behind the dispute. It was Sir Keith Joseph who, last year, told Sir Charles Villiers to limit his pay offer to an insulting 4%. It was Sir Keith Joseph who was behind the announcement that plants would have to be closed all over the country and the workforce slashed by 52,000.
Moreover, it was Sir Keith Joseph who deliberately chose not to take the £70 million offered by brought down one Tory government - the same week -IRELAND: Socialist Action